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Definition of Pathologic

1. Adjective. Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology. "Pathological bodily processes"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the practice of pathology. "Pathological laboratory"

Definition of Pathologic

1. a. Of or pertaining to pathology.

2. a. Morbid; due to disease; abnormal; as, pathological tissue; a pathological condition.

Definition of Pathologic

1. Adjective. Caused by or related to disease, pathology. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pathologic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pathologic

1. 1. Indicative of or caused by a morbid condition. 2. Pertaining to pathology (branch of medicine that treats the essential nature of the disease, especially the structural and functional changes in tissues and organs of the body caused by the disease). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathologic

pathogenies pathogenomics pathogens pathogeny pathogneumonic pathognomic pathognomies pathognomonic pathognomonic symptom pathognomonics

pathognomy pathognostic pathographies pathography patholesia pathologic (current term) pathologic amenorrhoea pathologic amputation pathologic calcification pathologic diagnosis

pathologic fracture pathologic glycosuria pathologic histology pathologic physiology pathologic process pathologic processes pathologic retraction ring pathologic rigidity pathologic sphincter

Literary usage of Pathologic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"Congestion to a degree which anywhere else in the body would be abnormal, and actual hemorrhage, would, of course, be pathologic in any other organ but the ..."

2. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"CHAPTER XXIX pathologic PLANT ANATOMY With the multiplicity of higher plant forms, ... pathologic plant anatomy, therefore, has to deal with abnormal, ..."

3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"pathologic Physiology and Treatment of Acute Blood Loss. Blood Regeneration After Acute Blood Loss. The Effect of Transfusion on the Patient's Symptoms of ..."

4. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1900)
"Gautier states that pathologic urobil'm may be obtained from ... While its occurrence- in the urine is essentially a pathologic phenomenon, it is at times ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"THE amount and character of the pathologic changes in the sympathetic ganglia removed at operation or at autopsy from patients with exophthalmic goiter have ..."

6. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"Such actual error, from a clinical diagnostic standpoint, is certainly inevitable and unavoidable from the nature of the pathologic conditions involved, ..."

7. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1897)
"While its occurrence in the urine is essentially a pathologic phenomenon, it is at times also ... From its frequent occurrence in febrile urines pathologic ..."

8. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"One does not need to take the picture himself, but the radiologist has hardly ever clinical experience enough to judge pathologic conditions, ..."

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